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The FTC rigorously enforces laws for email compliance. Ensure that your strategy is aligned with the CAN-SPAM Act so that you’re not exposed to potential lawsuits.

Here are the rules that businesses must follow:

• Don’t use false or misleading header information.
  Your “From,” “To,” “Reply-To,” and routing information — including the originating domain name and email address — must be accurate and identify the person or business who initiated the message.
• Don’t use deceptive subject lines.
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How would you like every piece of content you create to be your sales agent? Imagine if every article, post or video you created led to more subscribers and more sales… how awesome would that be?

Here are 5 keys to writing content that makes people want to read it, use it and buy from it.

1: Create Numbered Headlines that Make People Want to Consume Your Content

The first step to writing profitable content is to make sure it gets read by your audience. This means you need a headline that grab...

My organic grocery store sells several different kinds of prepackaged coconut macaroons. The cookies come in bags or canisters, and the weight tends to be around 12 to 16 ounces.

But for the same price, you can buy a bag that weighs just 5 ounces.

Care to guess which one is the biggest seller?

It’s the 5-ounce bag, and here’s how they manage to sell less than half as much for a price as high as the others:

First, the product is top-notch double (DOUBLE!) chocolate, for crying out loud. Reall...

Instagram has roughly 1 Billion monthly active users. This is a HUGE social media channel, and it just keeps growing at an unprecedented rate.

If you’ve ever wanted to monetize Instagram, NOW is the time to do so. Here are 5 ideas to get you started…

1: Affiliate Marketing – work as a brand ambassador for products you use and believe in.

2: Sponsored Posts and Shoutouts – when you achieve ‘influencer’ status, you can leverage this influence to promote brands that pay you via sponsored posts.

6 Magic Words that Sell More Products

You’re writing an email.

Or you’re creating a lead magnet.

Or maybe it’s a blogpost.

Whatever it is, somewhere in there you’re talking about how to do something.

Step 1, Step 2 and so forth.

• How to Double Your Traffic
• How to Get More Free-Spending Clients
• How to Grow 100 Pound Purple and Pink Pumpkins

You’re telling the reader what to do and how to do it. You’re sharing your methods and your resources.

And when you mention those resources – the...

Don’t you love programs where you get surprise checks from sales you made months ago?

These are the highest paying recurring billing affiliate programs on Clickbank in software, self-improvement, and jobs. Why would you do all the work to make a sale and only get paid once when you can get paid over and over again? That’s what I love about recurring billing.

Just a note: I am in no way endorsing any of these programs, so please do your own research and only recommend programs you trust. That s...

If your marketing efforts are taking up too much time or feel like the work is never-ending, it might be time to automate them. With the use of tools and tactics, all of your marketing can be automated!

Marketing Automation is a powerful tool that allows you to set up an automatic process for sending emails, social media posts, and other online interactions with visitors to your website.

This post will show you how to get started with marketing automation by providing 12 tips and tools.

Have you ever driven your car onto a frozen lake, parked, cut a hole in the ice, and started fishing? This might sound like an unusual idea if you’re from warmer climates. Why would someone sit on iced-over water for hours, freezing themselves silly, waiting for fish to wake up from their cold slumber and bite at their hook?

One way to make this sport more bearable is to build yourself an ice-fishing shanty. About the size of a garden shed, this is a small structure towed out onto the ice. The ...

I know firsthand how difficult it can be to continually come up with new topics for your emails.

The first 20 are easy.

The next 30 aren’t too difficult.

The next 50 take work.

And once you’ve done a few hundred emails, you’re pretty sure you’re just writing the same things over and over again – most likely because you are.

If you want to keep your emails fresh, interesting and even exciting for your readers, then it’s time to step up your game and find something new to offer.

Which is why...

Twitch is the go-to platform for gamers, but you don’t have to be a gamer to make money on this social media site. If you want an exciting career as a streamer who can earn six and seven figures per year without being a gaming expert, then Twitch might be your new calling!

In addition to providing entertainment through gameplay videos or commentary from other streams like top players, there are many ways that people monetize their channels, including subscriber sponsorships and ads. One of thes...